The findings suggest that attitudes towards data sharing are changing for the positive with more people willing to share a variety of data relating to health. Even more importantly the paper indicates that the way to increase this positive attitude towards data sharing is through education. It appears that it is those with higher levels of education who are more open to data sharing possibilities. This further highlights the already prevalent need to increase science literacy within the wider public.

Another key theme, drawn out by K. Thomas Pickard in his blog, is the need to develop models to encourage data sharing and which connect consumers to their data. We have seen in the Genetics Clinic of the Future that patients represent a key aspect of the future of health care, and data sharing is no exception to this.

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